Brian Brazeau’s book entitled Writing a New France (1604-1632): Empire and Early Modern Identity will be going into production with Ashgate Publishing this October, and is scheduled for publication in Fall 2009.  Professor Brazeau has also had an article accepted by Cahiers du Dix-Septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 
 

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Cheryl Caesar's paper, "Affectolect or Appropriation: Comparing Two Types of Heteroglossia," has been accepted for IALIC's annual conference in Glasgow. The conference, "Faith, Hospitality and Shopping: Re-imagining Intercultural Dialogue," will be held from October 31 to November 2. IALIC is the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication.

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“Murder at the Empire State Building,” the semi-fictional documentary that Jerome Charyn co-wrote with director William Karel, was shown on Canal Plus this summer, and will soon be shown on Arte.  The film has been sold in seven other countries and was selected to be screened at the Deauville Film Festival.  The graphic novel based on his own novel, Marilyn the Wild (artwork by Frederic Rebena), was serialized this summer in Libération.  His short story, “La trahision d’Athéna, was published in Le Figaro in July.  His review of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” was the lead article in the cultural section of Die Zeit, Germany’s most important weekly newspaper.  His illustrated book on Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: The Last Goddess (published first in France), will be published in the United States by Abrams in November.  His review of Nicholas Delbanco’s new novel, The Count of Concord, appeared this summer in Book World (the Washington Post).  The French translation of his novel, El Bronx, is scheduled to be published by the Mercure de France in October.  The German translation of his novel, Citizen Sidel, will be published by Rotbuch this month.

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Harry Costin of the IBA Department attended the annual conference of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, CA, August 8-13. He participated at the conference as a panelist at the session: Making Large Global Collaborations Succeed.

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Alice Craven was the plenary speaker at the 6th International Conference for New Directions in the Humanities in Istanbul.  She delivered a paper on Beni Snassen and Abd Al Malik.

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Susan Cure attended the 11th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gene Therapy in Boston (May 28-June1, 2008), followed by the 4th Stem Cell Clonality and Genotoxicity Retreat at the Harvard Club of Boston on June 1st and 2nd. About 2,000 participants attended the first conference, and 200 at the second one.

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William Dow presented his paper, “This Certain Conjunction: Gender and Class in American Culture” for the seminar Crossing Borders: Gender and Class in American Culture, which took place at the University of  Valenciennes on April 25. Alice Craven and William Dow co-organized The Richard Wright Centennial Conference held at AUP 19-21 June. The largest conference ever sponsored by the Department of  Comparative Literature and English, it brought together over 120 Wright scholars, as well as poets, novelists, filmmakers, actors, sociologists, and political activists. It featured such plenary speakers as Julia Wright, daughter of  Richard Wright, celebrated writer John Edgar Widemen, cultural historian Paula Rabinowitz, and leading Wright scholars Houston Baker and Joyce Ann Joyce. It also received extensive press coverage from The Philadelphia Tribune and is now serving as the base for an internationally distributed Richard Wright Podcast and photo exhibit. Plans are underway to publish the selected proceedings. In September William Dow was appointed to the position of Professeur des Universités at Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée. 

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Waddick Doyle presented a paper at the The International Association for Media and Communications Research 'Media and Global Divides' Conference in Stockholm in July. His paper was entitled "Dragging Audiences from Television into Electoral Politics: The Cases of Italy and the USA."

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Steven Ekovich published “Prolégomènes à toutes considérations sur la sécurité en Méditerranée” in EurOrient: La Méditerranée à l’épreuve de la mondialisation  (N° 27, 2008). In July he gave a talk on “Governance and Globalisation” at the Hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during the Third Summer University for Democracy organized by the Council of Europe. From Aug. 19-Sept. 6 he traveled to Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso to give lectures, press conferences, media interviews and to meet political leaders on the US elections as well as on democracy and democratization. In Guinea, his activities included a talk on “Democracy and the Rule of Law” to youth associations; a press conference on “Nominating Conventions” to the media; a discussion on the US electoral system to professors, labor union reps, members of the Civil Society Associations and the judiciary, government officials, law students, and members of the CENI (National Electoral Independent Commission); and a presentation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on American Foreign Policy staff. He was an invited guest on “Société-Débat” a live call-in talk show on Familia FM; and gave an interview on private radio on “Democracy and Democratization." He was also the guest of honor at a reception at the American Ambassador’s residence for political and opinion leaders. In Mali, Ekovich was a guest on the interview show “L’Invité du Jour” of the Africa-wide TV channel AFRICABLE. He also gave the following lectures: “The November Elections” at the US Embassy in Bamako; “The Campaign and Nominating Conventions” at the Institut National de Formation Judiciaire; “The November Elections” for journalists and members of the URTEL (Union des Radio et Télévisions Libres) and Assep (Association des Editeurs de Presses Privées); and “Bicameralism in the United States” to the Haut Conseil des Collectivités. In Burkina Faso he gave a lecture on US elections to local political leaders in Zorgo; interviews at the National radio and television stations; a roundtable discussion at the Centre Norbert Zongo; a lecture for CIVIPAX on “US Election and its Effect on the World Economy, Specifically Africa”; a discussion with political leaders in Bobo-Dioulasso; and a lecture on democracy and development for strategists, military officers and security officials of the African Center for Strategic Studies. He was also the featured speaker at the American Ambassador’s residence at a reception held for political leaders and government officials.

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Hall Gardner’s first book of poems, The Wake-Up Blast, has been published by Narcissus Press, Rhinebeck NY. It is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Borders, as well as the AUP bookstore (Learn more). Over the summer, he participated in discussions and debates on the crisis in Georgia and the US presidential elections on FRANCE 24. His analyses on Ukraine and secessionism in the Balkans and the Caucasus were published on the Atlantic Community website prior to the Russian-Georgian crisis (Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3) On September 8, Hall Gardner was interviewed on the crisis in Georgia and its global ramifications (Learn more).

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar was honored to be a Plenary Keynote Speaker on July 24, at the annual World Congress of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR), devoted to the theme ‘Media and Global Divides’ and held at Stockholm University.  Earlier, he spoke on the topic ‘Public Culture:  The Local Challenge’ at a seminar on ‘Appropriation of Cultural Objects’ organized for city cultural officials and professionals on June 2-3 in Oporto, Portugal by the Fundaçao de Serralves. On June 28, he was a speaker in the closing Round Table of a conference entitled ‘Culture of Reconstruction:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis’ organized at Cambridge University under the auspices of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).  Finally, the 2008 volume entitled The Cultural Economy of ‘The Cultures and Globalization Series’ of publications of which he is co-editor, will be published this month by SAGE Publications, London.

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Christian Joppke published “Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe?” in the Journal of Law and Ethics of Human Rights 2(1), 2008, 1-41.

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Since the beginning of the Georgian crisis, Oleg Kobtzeff spoke four times on FRANCE 24 and twice on Radio Algérie International about Russian-American relations.

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Lissa Lincoln published a commissioned article entitled “Justice, Jugement, Justification” in the review Cause Commune, October 2008. She also gave a paper, “Law’s Madness: Strategies of the Renegade,” at the 2008 Critical Legal Conference held at the School of Law, University of Glasgow, September 5-7.

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Professor Anne Marsella's new French novel, Patsy Boone, has been published by Editions de la Différence and was featured in L'Humanité's "premier roman" selection.

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Linda Martz attended the "Gender, Health and Medecine" conference at the University of Exeter. Her paper was entitled, "'That Splendid Body of Women': Suffrage, Nursing, and the Registration Question."  Professor Martz has had an article on networks of single women that connected the early suffragette movement to other reform movements accepted for publication by Women's History Review. WHR has also asked her to review Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin, a new play that premiered at the National Theatre this summer. The play, the first by a living woman playwright to be premiered at the Olivier, deals with the relationship between two suffragettes from different classes at the height of suffrage militancy.

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Ann Mott was appointed Chair of the European Writing Centers Association at the annual EWCA conference in Freiburg, Germany in June.

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In June, Terence Murphy participated in the Forbes European Forum in Cannes, France entitled, "Reform, renewal or rupture?"  In September, his essay "The Five Day War" appears in International Political Economy.

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Farhad Nomani presented a co-authored paper on "Decomposition of class and labor force in Iran: structural and employment sources of change in 1976-2006" on May 24, in a conference on the Iranian economy at London Metropolitan Business School.

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Rebekah Rast and Edith Taïeb co-edited a special issue of Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère entitled Savoirs et savoir-faire dans l’apprentissage et l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère, which was published in August 2008. The issue comprises a selection of papers from the conference Language Learning and Teaching in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts / Apprendre et enseigner une langue dans un contexte multiculturel et multilingue, organized by the Department for Language Research and Teaching in October 2007.

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Charles Talcott presented a paper entitled "Legislating the Postcolonial Imagination: French Law and the 'fracture coloniale'" at the University of Glasgow School of Law, which hosted the Critical Legal Strategies conference in September 2008.

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David Tresilian gave a public lecture on modern Arabic literature as part of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival in Liverpool (UK) on 12 July.

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James N. Ward’s foreword and professional endorsement of Dr. Euan Sinclair’s Volatility Trading was published by Wiley Trading of John J. Wiley and Son in July of 2008. Sinclair’s work covers volatility trading from the perspective of option market makers and participants both hedging and taking a view on volatility, and details practical execution of the mathematical strategies Professor Ward and Dr. Sinclair have collaborated on for nearly a decade, with particular attention to the expanded use of the Kelly Criterion and information theory in managing cash and maximum expected returns of the total aggregate positions. He was quoted in the July 1 article on Bloomberg News “Junk Bond Borrowers Squeezed in Europe After Shutdown,” where he compared current access to leveraged capital markets in Europe and the USA. Bloomberg attributed his comments not only to his role as a head of high yield investments for AXA, but also as ‘a professor of finance at The American University of Paris,’ raising the University’s profile in the financial press.

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Jula Wildberger presented a paper on "The emperor as a moral person in the context of friendship: the example of Nero" at an international conference on the Roman Emperors at St. Andrews, Scotland. She has accepted an invitation to participate as expert scholar in an interdisciplinary workshop on "Self, Mental Causation and Free Will" at the 17th Mind and Life Conference in Berlin, which is presided by the Dalai Lama. Her paper on "Paradox, Splitting and Integration in Seneca's Oedipus" has now appeared in print.

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